In recent years, there has been a demand from the automobile sector to reduce the weight of automobiles to improve fuel economy because of the increased severity of environmental and energy related problems. From such aspect, Aluminium alloys with lightness and high specific strength have attracted considerable attention primarily as a substitution material for conventional steel material. Applications of Aluminium alloys, however, have been limited because of their low wear resistance. Aluminium has a very high thermal conductivity (about 337 w/m-K) which results in a generation of thermal stresses when any wear-resistant material usually having lesser thermal conductivity is clad on it. In addition, Al has high laser reflectivity (about 60%) which restricts localized heating and melting. Laser absorptivity only starts increasing once the molten phase is reached which eventually leads to uncontrollable melting. Due to all these afore-mentioned reasons, it is always a challenge to attempt dissimilar laser materials processing involving Aluminium. In the current study, to enhance the wear properties of Aluminium by laser cladding of dissimilar materials on Aluminium, a particular grade of wear-resistant martensitic stainless steel powder, Rockit® 401 is used as a cladding material for Laser Cladding on an Al 1100 substrate by Direct Energy Deposition method. This has 18wt% Cr added to it and with reference to the binary Fe-Cr phase diagram, around this wt% of Cr, there is a huge temperature range throughout which a single phase BCC solid solution is present without the formation of a brittle δ phase. Commercially pure Al was chosen as it has the highest thermal conductivity among all the Al and Al-based alloys, hence having a higher chance of thermal conductivity mismatch with the wear-resistant clad layer. Detailed assessment of microstructural, mechanical, tribological and electrochemical properties are being performed. X-Ray diffractograms show no presence of any Fe-Al intermetallic phases. Interestingly, laser cladding introduced residual compressive stress of 637.6±37.6 MPa. Laser clad zone comprises martensite, retained austenite, and ferrite, and measures an average hardness of 500 to 600 VHN. Fretting wear test of the cladded layers shows significant improvement in wear resistance. A marginal improvement in corrosion resistance was also recorded in laser surface engineered samples due to microstructural/compositional homogenization.